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MAy 2016: Horror Bloggers Guild New Members

Who are you and what kind of blogger are you?

As an attorney and software engineer, I admittedly have an atypical background for someone who owns a horror website. Found Footage Critic started as a weekend project that somehow evolved into what is amounting to a full time job

What do you hope to achieve with your blog?

All too often, found footage films are considered the punching bags of discontent for many critics, movie goers, and even filmmakers. I wanted to create a website and online community where found footage fans and filmmakers could embrace the genre. At the time, no such web presence existed, so I set out to build one. Today, Found Footage Critic is the world’s most complete database of pure found footage films.

​I'm a university prof (and my two co-bloggers are, respectively, an academic librarian and a PhD student as well FT worker). We are all huge horror fans and hope to get our ideas about horror out there, as well as build a solid base of readers with whom we can share what's great about horror. We like to blend fan feeling with thoughtful analysis. I'm most proud of some of my reviews, I think, which are different from the kinds of writing I do in my day job. I like to make them substantive, more than fluff.